Saturday, December 31, 2011

A Royal Child Translator

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Today is December 31. On this day in the year 1544 – in the words of Anne Lake Prescott, a distinguished American scholar of the English ...
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Sunday, December 25, 2011

From France to England via Imperial Russia II

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The previous post told how Charles Perrault's 17th-century French fairy story The Sleeping Beauty (Beauty for short) travelled eastward...
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Saturday, December 17, 2011

From France to England via Imperial Russia (1)

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This blog has celebrated the last two Christmases with ‘diversions’ about folk tales written down in foreign lands, which by long process o...
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Saturday, December 3, 2011

Terp Bounty Money

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I break silence to respond to a Comment. It was made by a New York attorney in connection with my post of November 21, which bore the title ...
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Friday, November 18, 2011

Blogpost 201

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This is the 201st post on this blog. It was to have been the 200th, but the event reported in the previous post intervened unexpectedly to...
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Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Rest in Peace

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The dementia-stricken Englishman for whom I’d been interpreting Spanish with doctors and caseworkers for more than a year – it seems longer...
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Sunday, November 6, 2011

“Anything you say… may be used in evidence.”

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Long-time Followers and other readers of this blog will remember previous posts about the interpreting at the drawn-out series of hearings ...
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